Care and culture : care relations from the perspectives of mental health caregivers in ethnic minority families / by Jorun Rugkåsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugkåsa, Jorun, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caregivers--Cross-cultural studies.

Caregivers.

Home care services--Cross-cultural studies.

Home care services.

Minorities--Cross-cultural studies.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Informal care provided by family members is central to current health and social care policy. Caregiving can be seen as a point where macro- and micro-level processes meet: it simultaneously concerns the organization of welfare states and the everyday lives of the millions of people giving and receiving informal care. This makes it important to understand how the carer role is conceptualized and performed by those occupying it.Care and Culture contributes to the sociology of caregiving by giving voice to mental health carers from a great variety of backgrounds and by placing personal experienc

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Informal Care: The policy and Research Context

Informal Care in the UK

Informal Care and sociology

The role of ethnicity in studying caregiving experiences

Collecting Personal Experiences

Organization of the Book

Chapter One

Care, Kin and Connectedness

The social roles of caregivers

Family practice and personal life

Emotion, connectedness and care relations

Culture and Family Care

The problem with culture

A practice-oriented concept of culture

Cultural models

Reciprocity, Recognition and Relational Models

Reciprocity and caregiving in familes

Mutuality and recognition

Relational models theory

Conclusion

Chapter Two

The Carer Role: Expressions of Relatedness

Caregiving as relatedness

Explicit expressions of caregiving as a cultural value

Caregiving Tasks and Family Connectedness

Maintenance of stability and "normality

Carers' role in promoting autonomy

Carer control as protection

Reputation management and protection against stigma

Culture, care and the "good carer

The personal, social and cultural dimensions of the "good carer

Chapter Three

Research on caregiving burden

Effects of the Caregiving Experience

Constant stress and worry

Personal growth

Redefining relationships, readjusting emotions

Unfulfilled relationships

Impact of caregiving on wider social relationships

Support from the Social Environment

Considerations of Adjustments to Care Situations

A changed social landscape

Relational models and family care relations

Implications for the sociological study of carers

Chapter Four

The position of carers in public policy and other social discourses.

Different perspectives on the role of family in mental health services

Inequality, ethnicity and mental health

Personal experiences and structural factors

Experiences of Racism as a Barrier to Carer Involvement

Experiences of overt racism

Experiences of subtle or structural racism

Models of Carer Participation in Clinical Decision Making

Accepting doctors' authority

Unrecognized expert

Partner

Challengers and mavericks

Flexible Use of the Models of Care Relations

Application of multiple models

Changes in relations over time

Variation in experiences of care relations with health professionals

Tentative patterns in experiences of interactions with health professionals

Chapter Five

Provision of Carer Support in Public Policy

UK policy on informal care

Policy assumptions of family obligations to care

Commodification of informal care

Experiences of Recognition of Carers

Being defined" by self and others

Misrecognition of the caregiving experience

Defining and Addressing Carers' Needs

Experiences of formal needs assessments and financial support

Unequal excahnges

Unmet support needs among carers

Support provided by the voluntary sector

Developing a shared carer identity

Can't buy me love: commodification from carers' perspective

Non-financial support and recognition

The conditionality of support for carers

Chapter Six

A New Model of Care Relations

Generalized care relations

Professionalized care relations

Statutory care relations

Implications for the Sociology of Informal Care

Kinship, caregiving burden and commodification

Contested understandings of the role of carers

The cultural as personal

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8119-8

OCLC:

922704069